Honestly I don't know how I shall start off with this post. Well I want to just let it off about people of today, which would make me talk about all our ancestors right since the first animal which started to balance itself on its hind limbs.
Days have passed by, the animal stood erect, started walking on its foot. It mated. Reproduced and they mated. Their objective was just to survive. Their routine would be to eat, sleep, survive, mate. Well life was so much simple then I guess.
Once these animals started to become lazy, they settled down near river banks and so called civilizations sprung up like mushrooms all over the land mass. These animals learnt to cook; use wheels and intellectual development of these animals were amazing. I would say the significant thing about these animals were to domesticate animals of the other kind and their own. The later descendants of these animals’ species called themselves humans, the all powerful animal.
There were people in the past fighting against all this division of people into communities, this racism and caste, and they've succeeded some amount in that I believe. But these humans never change. How much ever they walk forward, they take the same number of steps backward.
Now we'll travel very quickly through time in the forward direction. We'll come to our contemporary time period. You know, the days of the internet and all this social networking.
Let me come to the point straight. I am really irritated about these communal communities in these social networking web pages. How far is it taking us forward?? Many great people and some ordinary people like me always believed in the equality of all humans.
I checked out all these communities lately. Most of them either talk in praise of themselves or they just talk ill about others. What they do is, they desperately try to prove their superiority over other people or they just go on blah- blah with their legacy. The thing which hurts me is that these communities are not owned by some political parties or any communal fanatics, it’s the so called Gen-next of this country. Look at their forums and discussions, it gave me goose bumps. One glance through these pages will suggest that they are (I don't want to include myself) still monkeys which we were long back in time.
At least, some section of the population of our country believes these young people would take our nation forward in the future. But these young minds are corrupted still. Some might argue it’s just an identity of their culture and heritage. It’s just a glorification of their legacy or their status in the society. It just gives them pride. Bottom line is it’s their CULTURE.
Change is inevitable in every part of the system. That applies to culture also. Widow re-marriage was once a crime because of our culture is it applicable now? Women were kept within the four walls of a home or a palace is it possible now? That was culture back then. A country’s culture must also change from time to time. Take what is right and chuck what is wrong. Now I call that a good culture. Instead sticking on to communal superiority or caste is never a step towards progress. Walking backwards is never a step towards development.
Where are we walking towards? We call ourselves to be in the 21st century. Our thought process hasn’t arrived there yet. Most of us still have our medieval ideologies in our DNA. Advancement in values and morality of the people of a country is called as the actual progress. It’s tough to come out of our roots, but if it does good, we have to.
Break free. Think free.
